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“Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.” Jimi
Funny people mentioned this, I have a ukulele song somewhere which used chess as a metaphor for relationships. The chorus went like this: 'Rooks poised high on the seventh rank/Fazed by the harsh white lights I blunder'...song was basically about how navigating relationships can be at times as confusing and hard to learn as playing chess...
piedraven wrote:
Funny people mentioned this, I have a ukulele song somewhere which used chess as a metaphor for relationships. The chorus went like this: 'Rooks poised high on the seventh rank/Fazed by the harsh white lights I blunder'...song was basically about how navigating relationships can be at times as confusing and hard to learn as playing chess...
Some might suggest that when it comes to being "hard and confusing to learn," Relationship Navigation is to Chess as Nuclear Physics is to "Pull My Finger."
motherinlaw wrote:
piedraven wrote:
Funny people mentioned this, I have a ukulele song somewhere which used chess as a metaphor for relationships. The chorus went like this: 'Rooks poised high on the seventh rank/Fazed by the harsh white lights I blunder'...song was basically about how navigating relationships can be at times as confusing and hard to learn as playing chess...
Some might suggest that when it comes to being "hard and confusing to learn," Relationship Navigation is to Chess as Nuclear Physics is to "Pull My Finger."
I never even really wanted one, but sometimes people start saying I love you at you...
Which gives me the same oh crap feeling as when I realize I just blundered my queen lol
But let's not go there, I didn't mean to hijack a fun thread.
DreiCleaner wrote:
Conquistador wrote:
Bob Segar taught me how the knight moves.
I just wrote lyrics for Bob Seger's "Knight Moves"
I was a little bit behind
Could’ve used a few pawns
Staring at the black army, attack coming on
She was a boxwood beauty with a hand carved mane
A bridle on her head sitting way up high
Way up firm and high
Out past the mid ranks, where his pieces were collected
Stood my lone bishop, unprotected
Picked up my piece, the one with hooves
And I made a knight move
Tried to offer a trade he could not refuse
When I made that knight move
To a square, sublime
My position was looking prime
He wasn’t in check, oh no far from it
Yet I knew his king would soon take a plummet
We jockeyed for position all over the board
Captures being scored
And we’d steal a pawn every chance we could
To the back rank, where we tried to push our wood
I used forks, he used pins
Neither would yield
While our kings still had shields
Then I made a knight move
Tryin' to catch his queen in the middle of a snooze
Such a subtle knight move
Twas a sweet sacrifice
I knew he’d plunder
I laid the trap
And waited for his blunder
Waited for his blunder
I looked at the board to find a forced mate
How many moves? No more than eight
Started pushing my rook toward the square G2
Ain’t it funny how the knight moves
When you just don’t seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the knight moves
With checkmate closing in
OMG, if you ever have the free time, please sing this or have someone else perform it. I like it far more than the original.
"All along the Watchtower"
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants, too
Outside, in the distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
The wind began to howl
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
The wind began to howl
For completeness I’d like to add “Marching Mystery” by Dougie MacLean which is an imaginative look at how the Lewis chessmen arrived on the beach 700 hundred years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTn4GOTl7tA
“She holds her weary head
Her heavy horsemen stand alone
It's for the living and the dead
To search their fortune far from home”
YES: "Your Move" / "All Good People"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1I4Q6Px_78
Absolutely.